Birthdays
1947 Jamie Read (English visual artist. Works included the Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, as well as their singles ‘Anarchy In The UK’ and ‘God Save The Queen’.
1950 Damo Suzuki (Can)
1961 Paul Raven (Killing Joke)
1962 Paul Webb (Talk Talk, .O.rang, Rustin Man)
1970 Brendan O’Hare (Teenage Fanclub)
1974 Brent Hinds (Mastodon)
1976 Stuart Fletcher (The Seahorses)
1981 Nick Valensi (The Strokes)
1982 Samuel Preston (The Ordinary Boys)
1984 Jared Slingerland (Front Line Assembly)
1988 FKA Twigs
News
2008 Radiohead were forced to abandon an intimate gig at Rough Trade East records in London after police raised safety fears.
2009 Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in prison after being convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort.
2013 It was announced that Joe Strummer was to have a city square named after him in Granada, Spain, following a Facebook campaign. The square was set to be renamed Plaza de Joe Strummer.
2019 American musician Lorna Doom died of cancer aged 61. She was the bass guitarist for the punk rock band the Germs.
Album releases
1995 Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Rapture